Bug#935706: lintian: Make tag certainty a programmatic assessment

["Chris Lamb" <lamby@debian.org>]

Felix Lechner wrote:

> > Therefore I don't understand how introducing any new subjective tag,
> > whatever its name, is the way forward here.
> 
> The new field is not subjective. The alert level is not part of the
> tag declarations. The new field, called Visibility, now determines the
> alert level directly. It has a value of 'error', 'warning', 'info',
> 'pedantic', or 'classification'.

As I understand it, you are proposing two interrelated changes here:

  a) Renaming the existing concept of severity (eg. error/warning/
     pedantic, etc.) to "visibility".

  b) Dropping the certainty concept entirely (eg. wild guess, possible
     etc.)

Have I understood you correctly here?


Regards,

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